I’m hoping to buy some replacement pieces for my mother-in-law as a Xmas gift, and though I’ve eaten on her dinnerware many times (including this past Thanksgiving) I neglected to check the back for the name of the pattern. So, here’s what it looks like: Plates are CREAM colored and rather heavy and thick. They have PINK flowers in the center (not just on the rims). These flowers have a “brushy” painted look & have few petals (more like a dogwood flower, not at all like a rose or peony). The plates are rather deep and bowl-like, as opposed to being shallow. Knowing my mother-in-law, these are probably NOT an expensive set…probably something she bought in the 1960’s and likely discontinued. Well, does it sound like anything you’ve seen? Thanks for any and all help!!!!!
May 19, 2005
May 16, 2005
Should there be a Law Prohibiting People from having more kids?
Like in China they have a 1 kid Policy.
However we all live on the same planet and have excceded the 5 Billion mark (are over 6 billion) which the United Nations have said is a maximum sustainable level.
its not even about food, its about space, housing, consumption of NON-Renuwable resources, and Pollution (air and other pollution)
Also what about people who have kids on welfare, shouldnt there be laws that if you cannot afford to have kids you shouldnt be allowed to have them?
Looking for Input by intelligent people, having too many kids is being SELFISH. (its even selfish against your own kids since every birth makes life harder on those already born and in 20 years will be a real problem when all todays born kids start looking for houseing/jobs/clean air)
haveing LOTS of kids is SELFISH becuase you are only thinking of yourself wanting kids – NOT of the rest of the world and the impact of those extra people.
People are NOT dying as fast as they used to, people are living longer, if this were not true our population would be leveling instead of growing.
What about welfare people who cannot afford their own kids?
May 11, 2005
Do you think it is very unwise to move ALL our chemical plants to China and India?
I’m chairman of a local Chemical Networking group, and our US profession is being devastated by outsourcing all the chemical plants to India and China. Over 50 plants are being shut down and moving out of the country. We would never be able to fight a war without chemicals especially because China and India would never support us in a time of conflict. Not to mention the devastation of US chemists who are now out of work. Also China and India have very lax enviornmental laws, so they can pollute the enviornnment very easily and save money that way. Don’t you think this is a disgraceful and distructive policy to allow this happen?
who was the worst king of china?
if you can provide me the answers to some of these questions I will be very greatfull.
who was the first women king of china
the palace laws
the common household rules that the peasents had.
May 2, 2005
I’m an old socialist from the 70s and today China is my only hope how can I support her?
I was a member of some communist organizations back in the 1970s and 1980s. Today the only country I can look to is Red China even if they aint so red any more. How can I support them? I’m thinking of going ahead and getting a law degree so I can represent them against Americans trying to sue their companies. But I can exactly get into Harvard Law school, but maybe there are some smaller firms that will take what they can get?
Do the Taiwanese people understand that Taiwan territory does not belong to the Republic of China?
In 1895, “Formosa and the Pescadores” (aka Taiwan) were ceded to Japan in the Treaty of Shimonoseki. In 1912 when the Republic of China was founded, Taiwan was part of Japan.
None of the Allies recognized any “transfer of sovereignty” to the ROC on the date of Oct. 25, 1945. The proclamation of “Taiwan Retrocession Day” , thus indicating a clear intention and objective to annex Taiwan territory, is a war crime.
Article 4 of the ROC Constitution specifies that “The territory of the Republic of China within its existing national boundaries shall not be altered except by a resolution of the National Assembly.” In regard to the alleged incorporation of Taiwan into Chinese territory, there is no resolution of the National Assembly on record.
Under the customary laws of warfare, upon the surrender of Japanese troops the local populace in Taiwan will pass under a “temporary allegiance” to the conqueror, which in the post-Napoleonic era will be the principal occupying power.
May 1, 2005
China Reproduction laws?
I have heard that china has certain laws in place for reproducting these days, as they are overpopulated. Is this true? and what are the laws?
April 24, 2005
China is colonizing Africa! What can we as American do about it?
Thanks to the heavy cost of U.S. tax, regulatory, and environmental policies, and tort laws, that have driven up the cost of domestic production (along with trade policies that favor the movement of U.S. manufacturers to China), the evil communist regime in Beijing now has hundreds of billions of dollars in cash to invest in Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Middle East (not to mention buying up plenty of key assets in the United States).
In order to continue its meteoric growth rate and advance its global political-military strategy, China is acquiring access to, and control of, much of the Third World mineral wealth, fishery wealth and sea lanes.
They have plans of driving US forces out of Africa through the use of both conventional and unconventional warfare. In order to fully control all of the African continent’s supply and rule the planet.
What can we do to stop their evil plans?
April 23, 2005
Would a weight control law benefit America?
In China recently, they passed a law that mandates for men and woman that their waist can only get so big, excluding pregnancy in order to keep its citizens from getting to big and and unhealthy. They went so far as to make extra programs to encourage people to watch their weight. Now go past the freedoms that Americans have and compare the future result this law would have in America if passed through Congress. Thanks I was just wondering what others thought of this subject.:)
Think Hard
April 15, 2005
Is the Republic of China the legal government of Taiwan?
What is the status of the Republic of China on Taiwan? It is confusing … When exactly was the sovereignty of “Formosa and the Pescadores” transferred to the Republic of China?
I can find no reference to such a transfer in the post-war peace treaty of San Francisco. At the same time, the Sino-Japanese Peace Treaty fully recognizes the provisions of that earlier treaty.
Did any of the Allies recognize any transfer of the sovereignty of Taiwan to China upon the surrender of Japanese troops on Oct. 25, 1945? I have been unable to find any documents confirming that.
Is there any basis under international law to say that the 1895 Treaty of Shimonoseki (ceding Taiwan to Japan) was invalid? There doesn’t seem to be. After all, in a 1936 interview with Chairman Mao, he referred to Taiwan as being part of the Empire of Japan.
Without a clear transfer of the title of Taiwan territory to the ROC, it would seem that Taiwan is not ROC national territory. Comments anyone?